30 Nov
2006
30 Nov
'06
11:05 p.m.
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 18:26 +0100, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
Although I haven't seen discussion of disassembling factory BIOS, I would think this has been discussed; why is this not routine, or effective, for these unruly Intel chipsets which can't get DRAM happy?
Of course it has been done. It won't tell you _why_ certain things are done, or what they actually do -- disassembling machine code doesn't give you source code.
Another factor you have think about is how do you even know the factory bios is doing it right? If you imitate what a buggy factory BIOS is doing, you are going to reproduce the exact same bug in LB. I guess this is not pretty in the court.
Ollie